Heredity of skin pigmentation in man / Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles B. Davenport.

  • Davenport, Gertrude C.
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[1910?]
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Credit: Heredity of skin pigmentation in man / Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles B. Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Reprinted from The American Naturalist, Vol. XLIV., November, 1910.] HEEEDITY QF SKIN PIGMENTATION IN MAN GERTRUDE C. DAVENPORT and CHARLES B. DAVENPORT Carnegie Institution op Washington, Station for Experimental Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y. A. Introduction 642 B. Anatomical Relations and Kinds of Skin Pigment 642 C. Heredity of Skin Pigment in Typical Caucasians 643 (a) Blond X Blond (Table I) 644 (h) Brunet X Blond (Table II) 647 (c) Brunet X Brunet (Table HI) 650 (d) Intermediate X Intermediate (Table IV) 652 (e) Intermediate X Blond (Table V) 658 (/) Intermediate X Brunet (Table VI) 658 (g) Comparisons and Conclusions (Tables VII, VIII) 661 D. Heredity of Skin Pigmentation in Crosses between Whites and Negroes 663 E. Inheritance of Albinism 705 I. Both Parents are Albinos (Cases 1-3) 706 II. Neither Parent Albinic 707 (a) Albinos in Caucasian Families with Admitted Consan- guinity (Cases 4-6) 707 (h) Albinos in Families with Suspected Consanguinity (Case 7) 708 (c) Albinos in Caucasian Families with no Evidence of Con- sanguinity (Cases 8-23) 708 (d) Colored Families (Cases 24, 25) 714 HI. One Parent Albinic ((-ases 30, 31) 716 IV. The D.G.V. Family 718 V. The Condition of Hair and Eye Color in the Pigmented Parents of Albinos (Tables IX, X, XI) 720 VI. The Origin and ‘‘Cause’’ of Albinism (Tables XII, XIII) 722 VII. Conclusions 727 F. Literature Cited 7.28